In 1987 ten dancers from the middle and upper Oyapock River in French Guyana were invited to attend the Festival of Avignon. What meanings did they ascribe to their journey? What did they expect from the spectacle? Through a description of the concrete conditions of the journey I approach these ques...

In 1987 ten dancers from the middle and upper Oyapock River in French Guyana were invited to attend the Festival of Avignon. What meanings did they ascribe to their journey? What did they expect from the spectacle? Through a description of the concrete conditions of the journey I approach these ques...

This is a sound strip, a short sequence of described sounds, like snapshots, taken in a spacious village. Rather, let us say that these sonic traces, coming from various sources, took the ears of the writer. I tried to describe a set of relationships of this moving ecosystem, the starting point bein...

The thesis to come joins first of all in the continuity of the researches realized during the Master's degree I and II: a purely musicological approach specialized on the elaboration of musical time in the work of Ligeti. This first field of study will encircle the corpus of the composer by an analy...

This session draws on patrimonialisation cases which depend upon the support of a visual spectacle, either live or on film, and which thus implicitly define culture as a set of visual practices susceptible to observation. This definition, and the demand that Amerindians perform for foreigners that i...

The central corpus of this work consists of three contemporary composers of Arab origin: Ahmed Essyad, Zad Moultaka et Saed Haddad.Their compositional approaches have a shared basis in the critical thought of western musical modernity, while at the same time they reinvest certain materials and proce...

The main topic of this research is the traditional music of the Creoles, in French Guiana, a product of a unique historical, sociological and cultural context, cement of the creole identity. The cultures of the first inhabitants, the Amerindians, that of the French colonists and that of the African...

Through the isotopic study of the trilogy written by William Ospina, as well as the poems of the representatives of the Latin-American “oralitura”, it gives evidence of an acculturation process and a representation system that we designed as Andean. The question of “andinity” is manifested by repeti...

In southern Gabon and neighboring Congo, Babongo Pygmies form a dispersed group whose homogeneity remains to be demonstrated. If they have received little scientific attention until recently, this is probably because the stereotypes associated with Pygmy groups elsewhere in Central Africa do not see...

In recent music as well as in sound art, sound has emerged as a crossroad of theoretical and practical questions. Many of these questions concern the permanent interaction of sound with what surrounds it: physical space, the environment, the audience… This interaction leads to the idea of an ecology...

This dissertation investigates the social practices whereby French young people of African and Caribbean background, both construct distinctive ethnic, racial and gendered identities, and acquire and negotiate power and prestige, in a context of unacknowledged structural racism. These young people o...